Staff Embedded Software Engineer

Intuitive; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuitive in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a software lead to define interfaces between hardware and software, develop embedded software and supervisory state machines, and ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define development plans, prototype surgical robotic platforms, and drive risk analyses, interface designs, and verification activities.

The role requires leading software bring-up and integration, and contributing to multi-processor

Responsibilities

• Gather high-level cross-functional requirements, ranging from customer-facing requirements to clinical and safety requirements, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders on the definition of development plans and timelines, that combine technical needs with schedule and resource need.
• Identify interfaces and communication requirements between hardware and software components, architect modular and testable software that supports the system high-level behaviors.
• Support prototyping and development activities of novel surgical robotic platforms, by leveraging and adapting the existing infrastructure that is shared across all Intuitive robotic systems; learn from each iteration, refine and extend code quickly and methodically.
• Lead formal risk analysis; identify additional hardware requirements and develop software mitigations.
• Act as software lead in the high-level specification, bring-up and integration of new custom PCAs and FPGA IP.
• Perform detailed design, development, documentation and support verification activities of embedded software and supervisory state machines, in compliance with regulatory requirements and Intuitive's internal guidelines.
• Contribute broadly to multiple areas of software development for our distributed multi-processor systems, including but not limited to video and servo hardware control and monitoring, inter-processor communication subsystem development, system diagnostic and service application development, user interface development
• Apply high level and specialized industry expertise that results in new innovations and problem-solving approaches that can be leveraged across multiple products.
• Represent your project ably in interactions externally with key customer collaborators and internally within the company.

Job description

Job Description

Essential Job Duties

• Gather high-level cross-functional requirements, ranging from customer-facing
  requirements to clinical and safety requirements, and cybersecurity
  requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders on the definition of development
  plans and timelines, that combine technical needs with schedule and resource
  need.
• Identify interfaces and communication requirements between hardware and
  software components, architect modular and testable software that supports the
  system high-level behaviors.
• Support prototyping and development activities of novel surgical robotic
  platforms, by leveraging and adapting the existing infrastructure that is shared
  across all Intuitive robotic systems; learn from each iteration, refine and extend
  code quickly and methodically.
• Lead formal risk analysis; identify additional hardware requirements and develop software mitigations.
• Act as software lead in the high-level specification, bring-up and integration of new custom PCAs and FPGA IP.
• Perform detailed design, development, documentation and support verification activities of embedded software and supervisory state machines, in compliance with regulatory requirements and Intuitive's internal guidelines.
• Contribute broadly to multiple areas of software development for our distributed multi-processor systems, including but not limited to video and servo hardware control and monitoring, inter-processor communication subsystem development, system diagnostic and service application development, user interface
  development
• Apply high level and specialized industry expertise that results in new innovations
  and problem-solving approaches that can be leveraged across multiple products.
• Represent your project ably in interactions externally with key customer collaborators and internally within the company.